Creation Moments

Jonathan Cotton: In the beginning, God created. Welcome to Creation Moments. I'm Jonathan Cotton. Today, we'll look at five thought-provoking topics on science and the reliability of God's word. Our topics today include your body's 100,000 centuries, the ultimate engineer, Darwin's child murdered, the destructive power of water, and is the shark related to the pig? Listen and discover the evidence for our creator that is all around us. Then, after our program, visit creationmoments.com for articles, videos, FAQs, Bible studies, and so much more. First up, your body's 100,000 centuries. Despite the fact that most microorganisms are necessary and good, throughout our lifetimes, each of us encounters tens of thousands of different infectious bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites.

Even more remarkable is the fact that most of the time, our immune systems disable these potentially lethal invaders before we ever show any symptoms of infection. At any given time, more than 900,000 unique centuries posted throughout your body identify invaders, sound the alarm, and even issue specific chemical instructions for their destruction. These centuries may also be thought of as tiny doctors who identify a potential illness, discover the cure, and apply it even before the infection gets underway. The immune system has puzzled scientists. Researchers know that our bodies do not keep a set of genetic blueprints for these centuries, which are called B cells.

How then does our body make these centuries or develop the genetic information necessary to disable invaders? Researchers have learned that the body has a small library of DNA fragments that are continually being shuffled into new patterns so that the body is almost instantly ready for any invader. The fact that even medical researchers are in awe over the design of our immune system verifies what the Bible says. I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Psalms chapter 139 verse 4 says, I will praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are your works, and that my soul knows very well.

Would you pray with me? I thank you, dear heavenly Father, that I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Help me to take care of the temple of my body which you have given me so that I may be a fit and able instrument for you in this world. In Jesus' name, amen. Our next topic is the ultimate engineer. Did you ever wonder why, while there are lots of round and cylindrical living things, there are almost no square plants or animals? Why isn't there any animal that has a skeleton made out of metal? And while there are so many ways for living things to move about, why do almost none of them have wheels?

We make lots of square things. We use metal frames in the things we build, and we use wheels on lots of moving things. But these features don't offer good solutions to the problems most living things have to deal with in life. Wheels are useless for going through the jungle, climbing trees, flying, or burrowing. In engineering language, all living things show a high degree of design sophistication. For example, the skeletons of all mammals have a ratio of 30% shock-absorbing collagen to 70% calcium phosphate for strength. This ratio provides the very best balance for holding up a mammal's weight during locomotion.

Engineers also know that in order to get the best flow of a liquid, such as blood, a pipe's cubed radius must equal the sum of the cubed radii of each of its branches. And this is exactly the relationship found in all living and fossilized creatures from sponges to humans. The impressive engineering found in all living things and even in the oldest fossils offers elegant testimony to the creator's wisdom and power. None of us should be shy about recognizing him when we're with others. Job chapter 38 verse 4 and 36. Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?

Tell me if you have understanding. Who has put wisdom in the mind or who has given understanding to the heart? Let's pray together. Dear heavenly Father, I thank you that you have not left the world without witness to your great wisdom and power. Make me a better witness to you and what you've done for me through your son, my savior, Jesus Christ. In his name, amen. And now, Darwin's Child Murdered. On Creation Moments, we often challenge evolution with examples that show that the creation is carefully and lovingly designed by the creator. Many of these evidences leave evolutionists silent and unable to respond.

But one evidence for design is so powerful it almost seems unfair for creationists to mention it. Yet they do. As in one release from scientists at the Institute for Creation Research, while the brain weighs only 3 pounds, it can do the work of 1,000 supercomputers. It doesn't need to be connected to a power source, and it doesn't overheat because it's able to make its own electricity, and it operates on only microvolts of power. If your brain's 10 trillion cells were placed end to end, they would stretch for over 100,000 miles. Your brain has the capacity to store every word of every book on a bookshelf 500 miles long.

In order for the human brain to have evolved from a simpler brain in the time that evolutionists claim it has, the brain would have had to evolve millions of new cells every year for millions of years. A. R. Wallace, co-discoverer with Charles Darwin of Natural Selection, once noted that there's a huge gulf between the human brain and that of the ape. Darwin recognized what Wallace's argument did to their theory and responded, I hope you have not murdered completely your own and my child. God has given you a brain that has wonderful abilities. Don't waste one of the greatest material gifts the creator has given you.

Psalms chapter 40 verse 5. Many, oh Lord my God, are your wonderful works which you have done. And your thoughts which are toward us cannot be recounted to you in order. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered. Please join me in prayer. Forgive me, Father, for underestimating the great gift which you have given me, my brain. Grant me your Holy Spirit so that I may begin and continue all learning and wisdom in you. In Jesus' name, amen. Next up, the destructive power of water. Many of the features of the earth's surface have been formed by the cutting and eroding action of moving water.

When you think about how hard rock is compared to water, it's easy to believe that it must have taken hundreds of thousands or even millions of years for water to shape the land. This ignorance about how rapidly water cuts rock has caused people their lives. In April 1987, a 300-ft section of the 440-ft long New York Thruway Bridge collapsed into the Schoharie Creek. The moving waters of the creek had created turbulence around the bridge's pilings. Within a few years, this turbulence cut away the rock in which the pilings were anchored, and with nothing to hold it up, the bridge collapsed.

In June 1987, a section of the 2,800-ft long Clearwater Pass Bridge in Florida dropped 10 inches. Divers sent down to inspect the bridge pilings found that more than 10 ft of rock had been scoured away from the bridge's pilings. Similar instances of moving water cutting away solid rock in a short period of time can be found around dams. When many of these structures were built, it was assumed that it took tens of thousands of years for water to erode solid rock. But experiences now shown us that water is able to do in a few years or even a few hours what scientists once thought took thousands or millions of years.

Another lesson to be learned is that we don't need to claim that it took tens of thousands of years to form the water-carved features of our earth. Second Peter chapter 2 verses 4 through 5. For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness to be reserved for judgment, and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly. Let's pray. Dear heavenly Father, help more people to see that your word is truth and that it is not been shown wrong by man science.

Make it increasingly difficult for people to ignore the Bible which tells us of your plan of salvation for us through Jesus Christ. Amen. And last but not least, is the shark related to the pig? If all life evolved from and is related to earlier forms of life, then closely related animals should also have similar kinds of chemicals in their bodies. As the science of biochemistry has grown, those who believe in evolution have held high hopes that creatures that look similar to each other would also have similar chemicals. For example, insulin from a shark should be more like insulin from other fish than insulin from mammals.

Unfortunately for the evolutionist, chemical comparisons between various creatures don't usually show the same relationships as their evolutionary charts. For example, research at the Medical University of South Carolina compared the hormone relaxin that was produced by pigs and rats with relaxin produced by sharks. The results showed that the pigs relaxin was more like the sharks relaxin than it was like a rats. This seems to suggest that pigs are more closely related to sharks than to another mammal, the rat. A similar study comparing insulin showed a closer similarity between the shark and the pig than between the shark and another fish, the carp.

While evolutionists will sometimes point out instances where these comparisons have worked out as they expected, those results are unusual. Normally, these comparisons show that the evolutionary histories and relationships that evolutionists claim are nothing more than imagination. As the Bible says, each kind of creature gives evidence to the fact that it was uniquely created by God. Genesis chapter 1 verse 21. So God created great sea creatures and every living thing that moves with which the waters abounded according to their kind and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. Let's pray.

Dear heavenly Father, I thank you that you've provided each living thing, including myself, with the unique bodily needs so necessary for life. I ask that the fact that each kind of creature has been specially created by you would become increasingly apparent to modern science. In Jesus' name, amen. Great artists, musicians, architects, sculptors, and other creative geniuses reflect their individual personalities in their work. Likewise, similarities in the designs and construction of creation testify to the style and choice of one super creative God. The common ancestry argument that evolutionists try to make for vast similarities in nature gives way to a much better explanation of common design.

God is the supreme designer of the universe, and every good thing in creation reflects his wonderful personality. God did not leave his creation to rot. He didn't set the earth spinning and sit back to watch. He created us to have a deep personal relationship with him. Humans are his special creation. And when we cease denying his pursuit of our hearts, we can be restored to him. Jesus Christ is the bridge between creation and creator. Through his death on a cross, we no longer have to live estranged from our maker. Through him, we can clearly grasp the wonderful personality of our great God and by faith be redeemed into a divine relationship with our heavenly Father.

First Peter chapter 3 verse 18 says, For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive by the spirit. You can begin your personal relationship with God by praying this simple prayer. Thank you, Jesus, for dying on the cross for my sins. I recognize my own unrighteousness and my need for you. I believe you lived, died, and rose again. I welcome you into my heart. Fill me with your Holy Spirit and be the Lord of my life.

In your name, I pray. Amen. Thank you for listening. If you'd like to learn more about creation science and biblical worldview issues, visit creationmoments.com or download the Creation Moments app to access a library of great resources. I'm Jonathan Cotton. Be sure to join me next time for more Creation Moments, proclaiming evidence God's truth.